Open Source

30899 readers

550 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Best music tags editor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi all,

I’m looking for something to automatically tag some old music files I have sitting around. I’ve been working with Picard, but a lot of albums are not in MusicBrainz, and adding them has been a serious PITA. Is there any kind of software that either:

Can apply metadata directly from a streaming service (like this script for adding albums to MusicBrainz does)?
Can simply allow me to manually edit metadata with an interface that isn’t completely awful to use?

or even:

Two separate tools, one to grab metadata and another to manually add it (maybe a CLI interface for batch operations?)

Appreciative of any advice—I just hope there’s a better way, with how tedious this can be.

EDIT: Just to specify, I’m on NixOS.

all 10 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] wildbus8979 8 points 2 months ago

You might want to have a look at https://beets.io

[–] Klaymore 7 points 2 months ago

kid3 can apply metadata based on the filename if that's useful for you (just things like title and track depending on how you name your files). I also use it for manually editing metadata once in a while, selecting multiple songs and setting the same artist or album tag is pretty easy to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I haven't tried, but if you're on linux you could try puddletag. OneTagger is very powerfull too (and cross platform). I also have some extra tools that may help you in this guide I made here (it's a guide on how to semi-automatically download and tag music, for a windows pc).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I have not tagged music files in a very long time but last I did it was with easytag.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to hijack the thread, but does anyone known a terminal tool I can use to auto-tag the odd album when I find one with bad tags?

Music is stored on the server and served read only, so gui tools are not convinient.

Picard is great, but gui.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

eyeD3

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I wonder if Jellyfin can find metadata like it does with movies. Perhaps via a plugin?. Apart from that, all functionality (e.g. streaming) works with music just like it does with videos and that's great!